Youth Teching Resources Mrch 31, 2019 Epiphny (Jnury 6-Mrch 3) Not Your Typicl Techer Luke 9:28-43 Climbing Higher Lenten Seson (Mrch 10-April 14) Deliberte Devotion Deuteronomy 26:1-11 A Joyous Confession Genesis 15:1-21 (RCL 1-12, 17-18) A Hir-Rising Prediction Isih 55:1-9 A Stunning Invittion Joshu 5:1-12 (RCL 9-12) A Cutting Reffirmtion www.nurturingfith.net Subscribe to Nurturing Fith to ccess the core Bible content for this lesson. Find links nd videos relted to this lesson. 1 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019
A Cutting Reffirmtion Joshu 5:1-12 (RCL 9-12) YOUTH Teching Guide by Jeremy Colliver This youth teching outline is designed to support The Bible Lesson by Tony Crtlege, printed in Bptists Tody. You cn subscribe to either the digitl or print edition of Bptists Tody to ccess the lessons. Plese lso ensure tht ech person in your clss hs copy of Bptists Tody so they cn prepre before the lesson. Prent Prep Wht rituls does your fmily hve? You my be ble to think of them off the top of your hed quickly. You my even see things tht you do s norml nd not ritul. One wy to think bout it is, if you stopped doing something of the fmily, would there be n outcry. Tlk with your fmily bout your fmily rituls this week. You my lso wnt to tlk bout new rituls you would wnt to strt. Teching the Lesson Fellowship Begin your session by showing the clip Initition from The Skulls. If you re unble to show the clip, summrize it to the best of your bility, nd then fcilitte discussion using questions like the following: 1) Wht ws the initition into the Skulls? 2) Wht were the rules to being Skull? 3) How were they chosen to be Skull? 4) Hve you ever been chosen to be prt of group or tem? Wht did you hve to do to become prt of the group or tem? 5) When did you truly feel like you were prt of the group or tem? 6) How does it feel to know you get to choose to follow Christ insted of Christ choosing you? 2 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019
Informtion Trnsition to the next section of the session by reding Joshu 5:1-12. Allow the students to sk ny initil questions they hve bout the text. As you nswer their questions, you my wnt to provide some of the informtion found in Tony s commentry to nswer their questions. When the students hve hd n opportunity to shre their initil thoughts, continue the discussion by fcilitting discussion using questions like the following: 1) Why did Joshu hve the people bring stones out of the Jordn River to crete monument? 2) Why would the kings in the re hve been frid of the rrivl of the Isrelites? 3) Wht ws the purpose of the circumcision? Wht ws it supposed to represent? 4) Wht ws the importnce of celebrting Pssover in this plce? 5) Wht do these covennt revel to us bout God? If your group would like to dig deeper in their discussion, shre some of the insights tht Tony provides in the Digging Deeper portion of his commentry. You my wnt to use some questions like the following to fcilitte your discussion: 1) Where were the people of Isrel when this story tkes plce? 2) Wht journey re they on s the book of Joshu strts? 3) Why did they use flint insted of knives? You my lso wnt your group to discuss The Hrdest Question if they would like to continue their discussion on this pssge. Tony poses the following question to consider s The Hrdest Question : Wht s with ll the kings? Trnsformtion This week s spiritul discipline will be unique to your group. Fcilitte discussion of the group bout the rituls tht the group hs, where these rituls strted, why they continue them, nd wht stories they tell bout the group. Conclude your time together by plnning time for these rituls to tke plce nd include students in helping prepre nd execute the rituls. Close with pryer thnking God for llowing ll to be prt of the body of Christ. 3 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019
Digging Deeper by Tony Crtlege Digging Deeper is designed to support The Bible Lesson by Tony Crtlege, printed in Nurturing Fith Journl. Wtch for the shovel icon in the The Bible Lesson, nd then reference tht item in this Digging Deeper resource. You cn subscribe to either the digitl or print edition of Nurturing Fith Journl to ccess the lessons. Plese lso ensure tht ech person in your clss hs copy of Nurturing Fith Journl so they cn prepre before the lesson. The text As is often the cse, the Revised Common Lectionry text is snippet of longer text. To pprecite the smller portion, we need to exmine the lrger context. Hence, though the RCL reding for the dy is vv. 9-12, we will consider vv. 1-12. The book of Joshu The Book of Joshu begins long nrrtive discourse tht continues through Judges, 1-2 Smuel, nd 1-2 Kings (Ruth ws inserted lter, from different trdition). The lnguge, theme, nd theology of this lengthy section is so similr to wht we find in Deuteronomy tht scholrs commonly refer to Joshu-2 Kings s the Deuteronomistic History. The theologicl underpinning of the Deuteronomistic History is reflected in covennt ceremony conducted on the slopes of Mount Ebl nd Mount Gerizim, recorded in Deut. 27:1-29:1. The covennt, intended to be compendium of instructions to the tribes before they entered Cnn, includes list of both promises nd curses: if the people obeyed God nd followed the commndments, God promised to bless them. If the people disobeyed nd followed their own wys, God would curse them. Both blessings nd potentil punishments re described in detil, with the spce llotted to curses being more extensive thn tht given to promises. The Deuteronomistic History ws written to explin Isrel s history in the light of the Deuteronomic covennt: how it ws tht Isrel hd known God s blessings t times, but ended up in exile. Everything depended on whether the people were fithful to their own promise to keep the commndments nd follow God s wy. Chronologiclly, the Book of Joshu follows the deth of Moses t the end of Deuteronomy, nd begins with the commissioning of Joshu s the new leder (1:1-9) of the Isrelites, n morphous group of tribl units who trced their ncestry to Jcob, long with considerble number of other displced people who hd joined them fter their mirculous delivernce from Egypt nd during 40-yer sojourn in the wilderness. The setting As the book of Joshu begins, the people were still in the lnd of Mob, yet to begin their long-wited invsion of the Promised Lnd. Three tribl groups (Reuben, Gd, nd prt of Mnnseh) hd lredy been llotted territory est of the Jordn, but their fighters were required to continue the cmpign on the west side of the Jordn (1:12-18). Joshu commnded the people to prepre to cross the Jordn River (1:10-11), nd sent spies to lern wht they could bout Jericho, the closest city on the western side (2:1-24). 4 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019
Digging Deeper continued Tody, so much wter is tken for irrigtion tht the Jordn River is little more thn wide nd muddy creek, but three thousnd yers go, the river ws much lrger, especilly following sesonl rins, when it could become mighty torrent. Fords were few nd sesonl. Speking commnds tht he climed to be from Yhweh, Joshu instructed the priests to crry the Ark of the Covennt into the river, promising tht the wters would stnd up in hep nd llow the people to cross on dry ground (3:1-17) n event tht clerly reclls the mirculous crossing of the Ym Suph (Reed Se) s n erlier genertion hd escped from Egypt. In compny with the crossing, Joshu commnded the people to set up memoril to remember wht God hd done nd to pledge their fithfulness to God. Two of the ceremonies involved stones, suggesting tht multiple trditions re t ply. One story sys tht twelve stones lrge enough to be crried on the shoulder were tken from the bed of the Jordn nd crried to the first cmping plce, where they were to be piled together s lsting memoril to the sfe crossing (4:1-8). The other trdition is tht Joshu himself set twelve stones in the midst of the Jordn to memorilize where the priests stood with the rk during the crossing. The nrrtor climed tht the stones were still visible during his lifetime, probbly severl hundred yers lter (4:9). In both cses, the 12 stones symbolize the trditionl 12-tribe confedercy tht constituted the mjority of the people. Flint bldes Most trnsltions sy tht Joshu ws to mke flint knives. Bldes knpped from flint cores could be inserted into hndle of wood or bone, but could lso be used lone. The double-sided flint blde below ws excvted in Jezreel. Pssover According to the Hebrew clendr, Pssover begins t sunset on the fourteenth dy of the month of Nisn, nd ends t sundown on the fifteenth. Nisn occurs in the spring. Pssover seson lsts either seven dys (for Reform Jews) or eight dys (for Orthodox, Hsidic, nd most other Conservtive Jewish groups). In lter yers, Pssover cme to be ssocited with the brley hrvest nd the offering of first fruits t the temple. 5 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019
The Hrdest Question by Tony Crtlege Wht s with ll the kings? The Hrdest Question is designed to support The Bible Lesson by Tony Crtlege, printed in Nurturing Fith Journl. You cn subscribe to either the digitl or print edition of Nurturing Fith Journl to ccess the lessons. Plese lso ensure tht ech person in your clss hs copy of Nurturing Fith Journl so they cn prepre before the lesson. The text begins with clim tht ll the kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordn to the west, nd ll the kings of the Cnnites by the se herd of the Isrelites crossing of the Jordn, nd were so frid tht their herts melted, nd there ws no longer ny spirit in them, becuse of the Isrelites (v. 1). The nrrtor of Joshu considered the residents of the hill country to be Amorites nd those living in the costl plin to be Cnnites. The Hebrews hd mnged to conquer two smll Amorite kingdoms on the Est side of the Jordn, so their reputtion s significnt fighting force preceded them. Joshu 5 is not the first plce we see the terminology of melting herts. In Joshu 2:11, Rhb told Joshu s spies tht when the residents of Jericho herd of how God hd delivered Isrel from Egypt, nd how they hd defeted Sihon nd Og on the est side of the Jordn, our herts melted, nd there ws no courge left in ny of us becuse of you. We noted in the text bove tht the sttement is more rhetoricl thn ctul: though the book of Joshu clims the Isrelites conquered number of kings nd their territories, none of them rolled over without fight. The Hebrews fced spirited resistnce from locl residents nd were unble to dislodge mny of them from their lnd. But how could such smll lnd hve so mny kings? The lnd re of Cnn would hve been smller thn tht of New Hmpshire or Vermont nd yet it bosted numerous kings. How could tht be? The nswer is tht king cn be reltive term. During the Lte Bronze nd Erly Iron Ages, when Isrel reportedly cme into the lnd, Cnn ws politiclly orgnized into number of smll city-sttes, in which cities or towns of some size controlled the re round them often no more thn 20 miles cross. The leders of these city-sttes referred to themselves s kings, though they my hve ruled no more people thn the myor of smll town. As n exmple, consider the story of how Joshu reportedly conquered five kings t once: fter the Gibeonites mnged to escpe bttle forge pece trety with Isrel, other kings in the re felt thretened. 6 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019
The Hrdest Question continued So King Adoni-zedek of Jeruslem sent messge to King Hohm of Hebron, to King Pirm of Jrmuth, to King Jphi of Lchish, nd to King Debir of Eglon, sying, Come up nd help me, nd let us ttck Gibeon; for it hs mde pece with Joshu nd with the Isrelites. Then the five kings of the Amorites the king of Jeruslem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jrmuth, the king of Lchish, nd the king of Eglon gthered their forces, nd went up with ll their rmies nd cmped ginst Gibeon, nd mde wr ginst it. (Josh. 10:3-5) The nrrtive goes on to ssert tht the leders of Gibeon ppeled to Joshu, who mrched his rmy through the night from Gilgl nd succeeding in inflicting very gret slughter on them, until they were wiped out (Josh. 10:20). One is reminded of the old story bout the tilor who climed to hve killed seven t one blow, when wht he hd killed were flies. The kings of the Amorites nd Cnnites tht Joshu fced were fr more thn flies, but s leders of rmies typiclly numbering in the hundreds rther thn thousnds, they were kings of lesser sort thn we normlly imgine. 7 Nurturing Fith Mrch 31, 2019